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Stoic Thinker

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Long-time American expat uni teacher. Reluctant returnee. IR, politics, history, philosophy, science, sociolinguistics, intercultural communication, deceptive language analysis. Always learning. Social democrat. Feminist. Global citizen. Happily married.

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Stoic Thinker @stoicthinker2025.bsky.social · Nov 22

@occupydemocrats.bsky.social @democracynow.bsky.social @cendemtech.bsky.social @democracydocket.com
This is your pick me up:

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Michael Franti and Spearhead - "Brighter Day (Acoustic)" Live From Soulshine Bali

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Stoic Thinker @stoicthinker2025.bsky.social · 4h

Antifa is short for Anti-Fascist. It came out of WW2. It's not an organization. It's a movement. Trump says he will take the same approach to Antifa as he's doing with the supposed Venezuelan drug cartels. He is now threatening the No Kings protest.

Stoic Thinker @stoicthinker2025.bsky.social · 4h

Regarding Trump & MAGA: What we allow is what will continue. Stand strong and don't back down.

Stoic Thinker @stoicthinker2025.bsky.social · 7h

Will my fellow Americans let this continue?

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Stoic Thinker @stoicthinker2025.bsky.social · 7h

Global order upended. Does anyone care? I do.

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Stoic Thinker @stoicthinker2025.bsky.social · 7h

It's a pleasure to see Orban, who's been in power for more than 15 years, start flailing.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19h

"It is ridiculous that antifa has become this boogeyman. If they're going to tell us they are going to find the founder of Antifa, isn't the founder of Antifa...Winston Churchill? FDR? Didn't they lead a war against fascism? Wasn't that anti-fascism?" - me
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🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 1d

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Stoic Thinker @stoicthinker2025.bsky.social · 8h

It's great to be in a country with a high press freedom ranking. Of course, I'm not talking about America.
RSF World Press Freedom Index 2025: economic fragility a leading threat to press freedom | RSF rsf.org/en/rsf-world...

RSF World Press Freedom Index 2025: economic fragility a leading threat to press freedom

Although physical attacks against journalists are the most visible violations of press freedom, economic pressure is also a major, more insidious problem. The economic indicator on the RSF World Press...

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Stoic Thinker @stoicthinker2025.bsky.social · 8h

I think it's telling when former PM Olmert does an interview and says that Netanyahu was funneling Hamas millions, knowing they were digging tunnels, hoarding arms, prepping for attack, & he allowed it to happen, knowing it would sink a two-state solution.

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Eric Moore @ericmoorephoto.bsky.social · 8h

They knew the battle plans a year before 10/7. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/w...

Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago (Published 2023)

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Eric Moore @ericmoorephoto.bsky.social · 8h

I’m not the only one who thinks this. Israeli intelligence is some of the best in the world. You better believe they have spies in Hamas. It was a big operation. I find it curious that the Israeli response was delayed for several hours. Right wingers in Israel wanted to invade Gaza for years.

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Don't Follow Me I'm Hopelessly Lost @johnnycomelatly.bsky.social · 8h

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citizenfra.bsky.social @citizenfra.bsky.social · 16h

No King, No Court Jesters, No Nazis, No Coach F-c-ers

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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Stoic Thinker @stoicthinker2025.bsky.social · 8h

Nah, no pressure, right?

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Trump Says He Might Attend Supreme Court Hearing on Tariffs

President Donald Trump said he might go to the Supreme Court to personally watch oral arguments on whether the bulk of his tariffs pass legal muster, in what would be a highly unusual spectacle.

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Stoic Thinker @stoicthinker2025.bsky.social · 8h

Wouldn't it be nice to have an American president who cared about all Americans?

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 9h

Do the world a favor. Don't give your 6-year-old a smartphone. Teach them to dig up worms and catch fish.

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Stoic Thinker @stoicthinker2025.bsky.social · 9h

Not enough Americans care. This complacency is killing American democracy.

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Jen @jarose26.bsky.social · 16h

So the lead should be, dozens of reporters rally for the first amendment by refusing the pentagons unconstitutional request.

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Stoic Thinker @stoicthinker2025.bsky.social · 9h

Watching freedoms disintegrate in America.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 17h

Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power. https://to.pbs.org/4nTbVP3

Journalists leave Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 17h

The World Meteorological Organization said in its latest bulletin on greenhouse gases that CO2 growth rates have now tripled since the 1960s, and reached levels that existed more than 800,000 years ago. https://to.pbs.org/4hfXYIv

UN agency: CO2 levels hit record high last year, causing more extreme weather

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, soaring to a level not seen in human civilization and “turbo-charging” the Earth’s climate and c...

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Stoic Thinker @stoicthinker2025.bsky.social · 9h

A judge admits the devastating toll that Trump & fossil fuels are having & yet he dismisses the climate lawsuit. SMH.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16h

Vice President JD Vance has weighed in several times to speak out against what he characterized as “pearl clutching” over the leaked messages. https://to.pbs.org/4n8R8Wi

JD Vance dismisses bipartisan outrage over racist and offensive Young Republican group chat

The public release of a Young Republican group chat that included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers prompted bipartisan calls for those involved to be removed f...

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Stoic Thinker @stoicthinker2025.bsky.social · 9h

If he doesn't condemn it, he supports it.